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Re:Deep Beneath Earth's Surface, Clues to Life's Origins by jl6 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:56PM (#38904028)
Let’s hope we don’t find and extract so much subterranean hydrogen that we burn it into water and cause sea level rise.
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Re:Deep Beneath Earth's Surface, Clues to Life's Origins by random_ind_dude on Sunday January 07, 2024 @03:09PM (#38904664)
It will probably increase the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which will lead to further warming as water vapor absorbs the heat radiated by Earth.
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Re:Deep Beneath Earth's Surface, Clues to Life's Origins by coder543 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:28PM (#38904320)
Don’t forget that oxygen is useful for breathing too. Semi-important, I hear.

ChatGPT estimates that if we converted all of earth’s atmospheric oxygen into water (via burning with hydrogen), ocean levels would rise about 3.7 meters: https://chat.openai.com/share/c9c8ce51-6070-49b6-a092-86e4a4...

I don’t have time to check this math, so take it with a substantial grain of salt.

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